The Latino Studies Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in HigherEducation invites panel proposals or individual paper proposals for theAssociation for Theatre in Higher Education's 2006 conference. ATHE2006's conference theme "Theatrical Milestones: Past Legacies, PresentPossibilities, Future Strategies," offers us an opportunity to evaluatethe role of Latino/a American theatre both in hemispheric and globalframeworks as well as to investigate its role as part of particularlocal communities.. Given the conference's location at a site with anactive Latino theatre community, we are particularly interested inpanels and papers that bring together scholars and artists, and thosewhich use alternative and innovative formats. In addition, while wewelcome submissions that approach the theme broadly, we encouragesubmissions that address the following subjects:

Latino theatre in the Chicagoland area

The location of Latino/a theatre in hemispheric or global contexts

Interrelationships between latino/a artists and commercial/mainstreamvenues and /or Latino artists and academic institutions

Panel proposals should be submitted online using the ATHE website(http://www.athe.org) by November 1, 2005. Only complete panelproposals will be considered there. Individual paper/projectproposals, consisting of a 250 abstract should be sent to PatriciaYbarra, Latino/a Focus Group Planner (Patricia_Ybarra_at_Brown.edu) byOctober 15, 2005.